Pegg: Funnily enough, I was using some similar terminology. Benji is obviously the cool tech side of things, and Danny is his brother who decided to listen to the careers teacher and go into government.

Thompson: I did see a parallel between Danny and Benji in Mission Impossible. You don't usually need Stanislavskian techniques when you do Star Trek or Mission: Impossible, no disrespect to those, but with this, it felt like more of a responsibility to get it right.

I got a two-page document all about Danny's life, where he was born and grew up, and all these details about him as a person, which enabled me to channel a genuine authenticity into the performance because I felt like I had a real backstory. Peter is incredibly thorough when it comes to his character building. With this, it's a real-world drama, so we approached it with that degree of seriousness. Pegg: With pure entertainment, you're asking the audience to suspend their disbelief and, you know, buy into a world where a lot of very unlikely things happen. Was there much difference in that for you? However, this is an entirely different context. Thompson: You've done a lot of projects where getting facts and terms right are essential in whatever you are doing, being credible even in fantastical situations such as Star Trek or Mission: Impossible.

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